My biggest complaint is that BF3 is mostly a multi-player game. Yes, there is a single-player campaign, but many of my friends never played it to completion, despite being huge BF3 fans. BF fans are in it for the multi-player aspects of the game, which makes sense considering the series' origins. If we accept this game as a multi-player experience, then there isn't really a good justification to create a new game so soon after the release of BF3. Releasing BF4 so soon is liable only to hurt the MP experience by splitting the player base between two competing games. An MP game doesn't need new single-player content regularly like a game such as role-playing games. Competitive MP content is dynamically created by going up against other players and their wits, instead of running through pre-scripted encounters.

So, yes, BF4 tends to look like naked greed rather than an attempt to do something new or exciting with the series. I think there is a sunny side to this whole affair though. It just show that while EA has the technological muscle behind their games, they lack that creative spark to create truly engaging content, which the independent games industry has in spades. EA's previous strategy of canabalising said industry to gather resources is coming to an end and a number of prominent games studios are flat-out refusing to take on parent publisher, such as Valve and CD-Projekt, and I can only assume the trend will continue as alternative funding schemes become available that allow a developer to maintain "sovereignty" over their designs and IPs, while still bringing in enough money to make the games they want to see.

I thought the ending was pretty stupid. The whole grasp of quantum mechanics seemed weak to me. It's like they just decided "hey, lets put some mind bendy physics and everyone will think we're deep." Except if you follow what they're saying, then it just has more holes than this game has tears.

Seriously, the ending has the stupidest rationale I have ever seen in a videogame. It's like a bad episode of Fringe.

@Lambchopzin @Verenti I think your first few sentences are very well founded. But I take issue with your last sentence of the message.

The there is, in my mind, no way that being PC would stunt creativity, no more than creativity is already stunted by publishers. The very term "core demographic" is marketing jargon. It is used by people who are already thinking how to best sell more games. People who already change games to sell games, and thus stunt creativity. So how can we say one change is more destructive to the industry than another?

I would argue more diversity, even forced diversity wouldn't stifle creativity, unless the lack of diversity was integral to the plot of the game, in which case they likely are already making a statement on race or gender. What I think we DO need to be concerned about is bad or superficial implementation of this diversity.

But that's just my two cents.

Guys, I don't think they're saying "women are the new core and men are the old core", I think they're saying Women now make up roughly 1/3rd of the core gamer population, and therefore cannot be ignored.

Yes, the red dye was so famous the country was named after it: brazilwood!

It still looks like they took Fahrenheit, shaved out all the investigation parts and made a game only about the supernatural flying people bit. Some people might also call this the "bad part" of Fahrenheit.

Why has Martin not seen Ghostbusters!?

Aiden is also a guy's name, so its understandable that one might default to the masculine in giving him a pronoun.

Also, Ellen Page is a horrible human being. I have the misfortune of sharing a hometown with her. She quite nasty in person.

Johnny, you heretic. I thought you were cool with your toast, but you follow the lemon curd heresy. I must now destroy you. FOR ORANGE MARMALADE!

Also, this episode title is misspelled, it should read:

I met a girl who sang the blues
And I asked her for some happy news
But she just smiled and turned away
I went down to the sacred store
Where I'd heard the music years before
But the man there said the music wouldn't play

And in the streets, the children screamed
The lovers cried and the poets dreamed
But not a word was spoken
The church bells all were broken

And the three men I admire most
The Father, Son and the Holy Ghost
They caught the last train for the coast
The day the music died

And they were singin' bye-bye, Miss American Pie
Drove my Chevy to the levee, but the levee was dry
And them good old boys were drinkin' whiskey and rye
Singin' "This'll be the day that I die
This'll be the day that I die"

He quotes President Bartlet, to the point where he called the poster "C.J." :D :D

Now we know why Johnny didn't win Texas.